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A Sierra Summer

Adam Baz — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:03:56 +0000

WORK

Our meadows

PLACE

Yosemite Valley

South Lake Tahoe, our home

Lake Tahoe chillers on a day off.

Yosemite Falls

A big tree

CLIMB

V0 highball at the Buttermilks. Bishop, CA

Adam on an unclimbed boulder.

Bouldering at Lover’s Leap.

Atop Manure Pile Buttress, Yosemite.

View of Royal Arches Route (16 pitches, 5.10b/5.7 A0) from Glacier Point.

Looking up at the blank 10b slab and the A0 pendulum on Royal Arches. Jade free climbed the slab, Adam did the hilariously fun pendulum.

Adam on a barefoot lead of the notorious waterfall pitch.

Top out. God damn.

Jade leading the slabs of Pywiack Dome, Tuolumne.

Adam leads the final crack up the headwall.

Pywiack top-out. Tuolumne high country beyond.

Bouldering in Tuolumne.

Adam attempts the second ascent of Salacious Crimp (V4) at Round Meadow, Stanislaus National Forest.

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Adam Baz — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:21:47 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

BRAINSTORM’S FIRST WRITE-UP!

Adam Baz — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:38:46 +0000

“Battling Giants” (the song not the album) was written up on the Willamette Week’s Cut of the Day today.

Check it out here:

Cool!

My New Web Presence

Adam Baz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:56:00 +0000

I just finished reformating my website, which had stagnated for two years in a messy swamp of rookie html. It is pretty straightforward, but if you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them. Thanks!
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Obamination

Adam Baz — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:53:00 +0000

This is not intended to be too much of a buzz-kill during the honeymoon that America is having with pres-elect Barack Obama, but I am saddened and maddened by his appointment of Iowan Tom Vilsack (fig.1) as Secretary of Agriculture in his upcoming cabinet. This dude Vilsack, former governor of Iowa, was a pioneer biotechnologist, founder of the Governor’s BioTechnology Partnership, outward advocate of genetically engineered foods, and frequent rider of Monsanto private jets. In a socio-political climate ripe with rhetoric of “green” and “sustainable” reform, one might think that substantial changes in food production might actually be on the horizon. But to appoint as Secretary of Agriculture a man who actively endorses industrial farming, genetic engineering, seed patenting, and the contentious giant Monsanto itself, is a slap in the face.

fig.1

Oh, and he also authored the seed preemption act (or something of a similar name) which prevents local organic growers from having any say overwhere genetically engineered seeds are planted. I guess I just hope that our standards remain high, and that the frenzy surrounding Obama is more sincere than just an expression of relief after a time so grim.

YM, An Important Permutation

Adam Baz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Click on THIS LINK to experience it. xoYM

Game #2

Adam Baz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0000

a common thread?

Not for the weak or woozy.

Adam Baz — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:43:00 +0000

Tall Tom (aka DJ Dad) and MC Doug Funny (aka Slimfit) hunted their first creature of the urban-wild yesterday, and are in the process of tanning its pelt for the purpose of honoring and memorializing the life that we shared with it.

More to come.

:::Entered the BoaDrum:::

Adam Baz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:17:00 +0000

Here are two pictures…… And here are two videos of the Boredoms performance which I was recently so lucky to be a part of. The camera-person was sitting right behind me, so the long haired, silhouetted person with a light blue t-shirt displaying a subtle graphic on the back… is me:

One.
Two.

:::Enter the BOAdrum:::

Adam Baz — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:08:00 +0000

I am in Los Angeles, California. The sun is so hot and so relentless. The succulents as ubiquitous and glorious as conifers to the Pacific NW. On Friday I am playing, along with 87 other drummers, in the Boredoms’ “88 BoaDrum” megaperformance. 88 drummers, an 88 minute composition, on 8/8/08, at 8:08 pm. In the La Brea Tar pits, accompanied by the fossilized remains of prehistoric behemoths and dinotypes.

88 Drummers in order:
0) Eye
1) Yo
2) Yoshimi
3) Fuji
4) Hisham A. Bharoocha *L
5) Adam Autry
6) John Dwyer
7) Anthony Petrovic
Yoshi Nakamoto
9) Michael Henrickson
10) Chris Powell *L
11) Brian Dwyer
12) Alianna Kalaba
13) Jaiko Suzuki
14) Weasel Walter
15) Vice Cooler
16) Brendan Fowler
17) Rob Barber
18) Butchy Fuego *L
19) Nora Brank
20) Ryan Huber
21) Michael Catano
22) Robin Easton *L
23) Sandra Vu
24) Michael La Franchi
25) Dan Rowan
26) MICHAEL BULINGTON
27) Pete Vogl
28) Dave Aron
29) Sara Diaz
30) Greg Fox
31) Roy Tatum
32) Sarah Anderson
33) Aaron Moore *L
34) Tom Recchion
35) Gabie Strong
36) James Jolliff
37) Erin Garcia
38) Jessica Espeleta
39) Warren Fuegel *L
40) Jonathan Holland
41) Josh Taylor
42) Grace Lee
43) Brian Miller
44) Kevin Stuart
45) Damian Edwards
46) Jason Adam Baker
47) Paul Quatrone *L
48) Ryan Pritts
49) Claude Collins-Stracensky
50) Wendy Shuey
51) Matthew Hartman
52) Alexis Garapulos
53) Dave Nuss *L
54) Taylor Richardson
55) Stephen McCarty
56) Trent Moorman
57) Adam Baz
58) Tim Soete
59) Damon Eliza Palermo
60) Michael Tapper
61) Than Luu
62) Dustin Donaldson *L
63) Chris Hathwell
64) Wendy Farina
65) Katelyn Hall
66) Bianca Sparta
67)Andee Connors
68) Brian Girgus
69) Gregory Rogove *L
70) Sara Lund
71) Joe Plummer
72) Geoff Soule
73) Abby Ball
74) Adam Pflaher
75) London May
76) Chris Moore
77) Kid Millions *L
78) David Janik
79) Patty Schemel
80) Aaron Sperske
81) Joachim Cooder
82) Derek James *L
83) Mike Sord Gard
84) Andrew Neuhues
85) Tennesse Thomas
86) Diva Dompe
87) Kevin Haskins
88) Zach Hill *L